Eddie Mateo broke through a pack virtually untouched and was racing down the Bloomsburg sideline when bad thoughts came into his head.

"I thought I was going to get hawked," the Freedom High graduate admitted. "That's why I kept looking over my shoulder."

Mateo never got caught. Instead, he completed a career-long 84 yard touchdown run to essentially finish off Bloomsburg's 31-13 victory over Kutztown on Saturday afternoon at the newly named University Field at Andre Reed Stadium.

"He didn't even get touched," Golden Bears coach Jim Clements said. "That's about as easy as it gets.

"That broke the back right there."

Mateo finished with 163 yards and moved into fifth place in school history with 34 rushing TDs. He also had a 3-yard scoring run to give the Huskies (7-0 overall, 6-0 PSAC East) a 21-0 first-half cushion.

"It feels great getting a win here," he added. "We came in three years ago for PSACs and got demolished, so this feels better coming close to home with a lot of family here."

Reed, a Kutztown grad and Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver, was surrounded by family during a pregame, on-field ceremony for the stadium naming.

That was about the end of the highlights for the Golden Bears (3-4, 3-3), who again struggled with offensive consistency and big-play defensive breakdowns.

The Huskies, ranked 13th in the conference in passing, used completions of 42 and 47 yards on separate drives to build a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter.

A facemask penalty and a 34-yard completion set up Mateo's first scoring run with 4 minutes, 30 seconds left in the first half.

The senior running back's 84-yarder gave Bloom a 31-6 cushion late in the third quarter and set up next Saturday's showdown with fellow unbeaten West Chester.

"It's hard running the ball when they are stacking the box," said Mateo, the conference's leading scorer. "The best way to do it is air it out and make [the opposing defense] spread out.

"That's what we did today."

Bloom quarterback Tim Kelly thew for 200 yards and two scores to go with the team's 242 yards rushing.

Kutztown, meanwhile, struggled moving the ball for most of the game. It needed four series to get a first down and couldn't finish second-half drives when it did get something out of its short passing game.

But it was those defensive breakdowns that put the Golden Bears in a hole for a second consecutive week.

"We gave up some big plays defensively that were huge," Clements said. "We had to play them perfectly and we didn't.

"Our third-down conversion [defense] was bad. We couldn't get off the field. We had them in two third-and-longs and [Kelly] made us pay. We had spies for that, but it didn't work out."

Kelly scrambled to avoid a big rush and found Connor Gades for a 47-yard gain, then scrambled for 16 yards before connecting with D.J. McFadden for the first of their two TD pass plays for a 14-point Bloom lead.

The Huskies, thanks to a facemask penalty on third-and-17, drove 94 yards on their next drive.

"They run about eight plays," Clements said. "They run them very good."

Kutztown entered the game first in the conference in passing defense at 161.7 yards per game.

Bloomsburg, ranked second in scoring defense, was as good as advertised. Linebacker Justin Shirk had 13 tackles, including three for loss to give him 13.5 for the season in six games.

"He's pretty good, I think," Clements said. "I'd take him."

LOCALS ROUNDUP: Whitehall grad Andrew Harris had six tackles for Bloomsburg. Pen Argyl's Scott Beltz had three and Nazareth's Shawn Mitchell two. Salisbury's Tony David had one tackle and one quarterback hurry. … Whitehall product Zach Delp had 10 tackles, including half a sack, for Kutztown. It was only the second sack allowed all season by Bloomsburg, first since Week 3. Whitehall's Jake Wygant had three tackles and Northwestern's Andrew Deutsch made one tackle and averaged 39.6 yards on seven punts, including two inside the 20. Whitehall's James Wah had 9 yards rushing on five carries and 84 yards on four kick returns. … Kutztown had the game's only takeaway. Bloomsburg was tied for nation's all-division lead with a plus-15 turnover ratio.